When considering the manner whereby Vlad Dracula becomes undead, the vampire Dracula, in the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula, there are a few issues which correlate Dracula becoming undead and atheists rejecting YHVH.
Here is a synopsis of the relevant portion of the plot:
In 1462, Vlad Dracula, a member of the Order of the Dragon, returns from a victory against the Turks to find his wife, Elisabeta, has committed suicide after receiving a false report of his death.
Enraged at the notion of his wife being damned for committing suicide, Dracula desecrates his chapel and renounces God, declaring that he will rise from the grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the powers of darkness.
There are, at least, three noteworthy elements:
1) His campaign for YHVH, against Allah and the expectation of divine protection for doing so.
2) Manmade doctrines of suicide equaling unquestionable damnation.
3) Rejection of YHVH due to emotions, false doctrines and the problem of evil in general terms.
1) It is interesting how many people abhor crusader like actions yet, ask them if they would rather be on their knees facing Mecca five times per day and listen for the nervous swallow. While humans may expect that YHVH’s modus operandi is to, generally, trade service for protection it is not necessarily so.
But that is not fair is it? Well, such a judgment is based upon a presupposition such as that in YHVH’s eye’s service always equals protection. Fairness is not an absolute standard is it? One issue may be that we want, expect, demand that YHVH be concerned about the very same thing with which we ourselves are concerned. Thus, we praise Him as loving or condemn His as hateful based on a theological straw god of our own making. Yet, “‘my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ says the LORD” (Isaiah 55:8). It is a hard lesson for us but indeed, YHVH’s ultimate concerns concern ultimate destiny, eternal life, etc.
2) YHVH is the giver of life and it is certainly solely up to Him to determine when life is done. Thus, He provided laws pertaining to capital punishment in the Old Testament, it is understood that self-defense is not a sin, etc. Suicide is certainly horrendous both because the individual takes it upon themselves to take their own life, because that tends to devastate those around them and because it denotes a very, very troubled person. If asked about suicide and damnation the first thing to do is not to say something like, “Fo'git about that, that’s just some Roman Catholic malarkey.” You never know, it could be that the person asking is contemplating suicide. Yet, it is a fact that the Bible states no such thing such as suicide equaling damnation—without question.
3) Rejection of YHVH due to emotions, false doctrines and the problem of evil in general terms.
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